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I’ve been using 1Password for about a year now and like it a lot

To be fair, it’s really hard to get your hands on a human mummy to eat nowadays.

I think about this a lot

Sorry about your cars, y’all
-an American

HELL YEAH, BROTHER!!!

We’re fortunate our utility (Puget Sound Energy) will give us rebates for DIY improvements as well.

We installed a heat pump and got money back from the state and the feds.

It definitely makes sense to evaluate electricity costs. It’s unfortunately expensive to get a heat pump in some places.

Where we live, the Seattle metro area, it was a huge cost savings to get our heat pump.

Crunch the numbers and make sure it makes financial sense.

We love our heat pump!

We did a DIY install a few years ago. Cost about $4500 in total for a Bosch 18k BTU unit and everything needed to install it.

We got $900 back from the state (WA USA) and $2000 back from the feds. That brought our total out of pocket down to $1600.

We had electric resistive heat and no AC previously. Our heating bill went down by $50/month in the winter. It added maybe $10/month in the summer for air conditioning.

For our area, with mild winters and low electricity costs, it’s fucking amazing.

Don’t sully the good name of President Camacho!

He was a good man who helped his people the best way he knew how.

you can get fired for not being positive enough

This is a sign of a broken organization

Masturbate, play with my ass, and scroll porno on my phone. All at once!

Unfortunate we live in such a prudish country.

Damn, I can’t wait til she’s legal!

Silly animals!

an engineer, their word may be trusted enough

That’s what happens here. This person was a Professional Engineer, a kind of certified engineer. Their job is to determine if stuff is safe for use.

Things like roads, bridges, pressure vessels, and apartment buildings all have a Professional Engineer (PE) look over their designs at some point. Their job is to use their expertise to determine if the thing can do it’s job safely.

Existing structures are also periodically inspected by PEs. Like the above person, they determine if the thing can continue to do its job safely.

Unlike other engineers (in the USA), PEs have to attain a certification. You need to take an exam and maintain a license. It takes a lot of time and effort to obtain these things.

Shouldn’t the inspector be working off existing plans rather than being able to declare any structural element as decorative?

As someone else mentioned, the building is old enough that the initial plans likely no longer exist.

It’s the job of the PE to make judgment calls like “is this column structural or decorative”. This person fucked that up. Losing their license and ability to practice would be a fitting punishment.

When PEs fuck up, lots of people can die.

Idaho, the northernmost state of deep south

Another vote for Ubuntu.

I tried it as my first Linux distro about 5 years ago. There was some learning curve, but I really enjoyed it.

I’ve been using it for 5 years now. I’m glad I switched from windows!

Because prohibition doesn’t work. We tried it with alcohol, it didn’t work. We’ve tried it with most other drugs for decades, it didn’t work.

Prohibition just creates a black market for whatever drug is banned. The drug will still be available. It will also be adulterated and untested for purity.

If they were banned, cigarettes would become more like modern heroin. The contents of them would be unknown. In addition to the harms of tobacco, there would be the harms of whatever adulterants the black market sellers put into them.

Instead of dying over the course of decades of consumption, the smokers of Black Market cigarettes would also potentially be dying immediately from whatever random stuff people put in the cigarettes.

We had a good run

Same here. Biden has given me hope they actually will.

Instead of the usual Dem capitulation to shitty R demands, he’s told them to get stuffed.

This seems unprecedented in modern history.